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You’ve seen Academy Award winning actors and actresses in TV ad campaigns, perform stand-up comedy, guest host sketch shows and award shows. But until now, you’ve never seen someone go from Oscar to game show host. Jamie Foxx will host Beat Shazam this summer on FOX. Foxx, who broke through …
Congrats to Guy Branum, whose live comedy showcase, Talk Show The Game Show, has been picked up as a TV series for truTV! You might have guessed good things were in the offing for Branum, since he appears already in the new truTV ad campaigns. At any rate, here’s the …
Every TV game show that once was old, now is new again at ABC. The broadcast network today announced it’d ordered 10 episodes of a new edition for The Gong Show, which last aired in syndication in 1989 (with a Comedy Central version in 2008). Over the past year, ABC has found …
You’ve seen Jeff Dye tell jokes on Last Comic Standing, try all sorts of tricks last summer on NBC’s I Can Do That, and this summer serving as an Asian tour guide companion for Henry Winkler, Terry Bradshaw, William Shatner and George Foreman on NBC’s Better Late Than Never. But none …
Match Game finally is back. The 2016 version, premiering Sunday June 26, 2016, on ABC, began taping new episodes in America for the first time since BLANK (real answer: since 1999, or this century!) yesterday in New York City, so we now know at least six of the celebrities who’ll …
ABC figured out how to bring back the primetime game show some 17 years ago with Who Wants to be A Millionaire, and after a successful run last year of Celebrity Family Feud with Steve Harvey, the broadcast network is going all-in on Sunday nights this summer. The big news …
Irish hypnotist Keith Barry will reprise his role from the British game show, You’re Back in the Room, when Taye Diggs hosts a new American version that goes into production this summer for FOX. “The second I saw this show I knew I needed to be a part of it. …
ThinkFactory Media, the company that showed us the “reality” TV of Tony Danza teaching, Sinbad’s family life, and Gene Simmons kissing his Family Jewels, now wants to bring a popular comedy game show from Finland to the United States, with Larry the Cable Guy hosting the American adaptation of Hide …
The industry trade publications broke news about Iliza Shlesinger’s newest gig just minutes before we sat down in her hotel room to talk during the New York Comedy Festival. Schlesinger is making and starring in a comedy series of minisodes for ABC’s new streaming app. But Iliza has been hustling, …
Just last week, Dana Carvey was playing “Wheel of Impressions” once more with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Now Carvey will find out how amateur impersonators fare, as the former Saturday Night Live star will preside over the new USA Network competition series, First Impressions. USA, …
